Os impactos adversos do uso de agrotóxicos na saúde do agricultor(a) na comunidade Campestre do município de Cocal Piauí

Abstract

In recent years, the use of pesticides in agriculture and other food production sectors has been intensifying robustly, becoming a new model of economic cultivation. The effects caused on human health and the environment resulting from the use of these chemical substances are devastating and in some ways irreversible. The Municipality of COCAL-PI has the largest number of rural producers who use pesticides in their agricultural production. Therefore, this article aims to analyze the adverse impacts resulting from the use of pesticides on the health of farmers in the rural community of the municipality of Cocal, Piauí. The sample selected was 20% of this total, corresponding to 20 farmers. To obtain the data, it was necessary to look for other means that could help complete this research. Questionnaires were applied virtually through Google (forms), asking about the profile and form of production of the participants, where family members were helped to facilitate access to online groups, as the vast majority of interviewees had low level of education, thus making access to questionnaires difficult. The present work highlighted negative results related to the health of rural workers and demonstrated worrying information about the way pesticides are used and their effects. More than half of the participants have used pesticides for between 5 and 10 years, do not use agronomic prescriptions and have already felt some type of poisoning